Fires

 With the 500 fires in California and Nevada and the fires in Colorado and the three fires in Utah, we have had absolutely horrible air quality.  Every time we leave the house we're coughing and throats itching.  The closest fire to us was a small one caused by campers up Battle Creek.  My autistic young woman texted me for over an hour about it.  She LOVES fires.  She tracks them and loves the beautiful flames and the process of putting them out.  I kept getting questions like:

"How far are you from the fire?"

"Did you see the planes circling it?" 

"Are you going to be evacuated?"

"What time did it start so I can report it to the fire service."

Sam and I seem to do the worst with the poor air quality, but most of my day is inside right now anyways.  We still haven't been able to get rid of the wasps in the backyard.  I let me kids go out and play because they know to leave them alone and just don't bother them.  The daycare kids on the other hand are not so nice to bugs.  5 of the 8 of them like to find spiders, worms, earwigs and potato bugs in my yard and either squish them or carry them around until they die.  I don't think that being out by wasps would be a good idea for them.

Absolute favorite

This is my very favorite picture. Three of my four kids plus her cousin Samuel looking in the window on the Temple.

Family picture

I got this from Mary. This was our whole family picture at the wedding.

Lizzie's wedding

We had about an hour in the morning between breakfast and getting ready for the wedding... we went swimming.  It was pretty warm, and the only ones in the pool.

This girl forgot everything this time... shoes, sunday shirt, swimming suit, etc...

It was hard to get a picture of Ada... she just loves the water.  She's always just been happiest there.

This kid though, really... steals my heart.

I LOVE these kids.  I love their big huge pokey outey ears.  I love their silly and spunky personalities.

Emma and Stephen

Lizzie and Dustin

backlog

The last two weeks have been busy.  I haven't been able to sit and log any of it for our blog.  Right now, I'm waiting for the dishwasher repairman, so I'm forced to stay in the house and I'll take the time to catch up on things.

I think that our ceiling looks good.  You would never know that we had to tear it out and replace it. 

Here were the promised pictures from Lizzie and Dusty's wedding... I stole one of them from the photographer because I was more busy chasing kids than taking pictures this time.

This is the one I stole from the photographer.... Love these people!

Colorado

Colorado Beauty

Colorado is very striking. The route that we took took us through very beautiful Canyon and we ran into this guy next to the road. It was kind of see him very close.